The course is _______________________________________ of disabled children.

The old lady _________________________________________ at yesterday’s charity show.

I am wondering why the boys __________________________________ the girls in my class.

— Not until it ______________(repair) next week.

— ______ You are not too old to have a chance.

A.Why not start again?B.Don’t say like that.

C.How hard-working you are!D.Good idea!

— Yes. Just as the saying goes, “_________________”

A.One finger can’t lift a small stone.B.He laughs best who laughs last.

C.One stone kills two birds.D.One is never too old to learn.

— I’m unsure _________.

A.which is the way to the Palace Museum

B.how many colors were there in a rainbow

C.that the couple have been married for a long time

D.what he has devoted himself to improving his study

— Not yet. I’ll search for some on the Internet.

A.thatB.whoC.whatD.whose

A.After allB.In allC.Above allD.First of all

Between Sicily and Gibraltar, I saw many shipwrecks. Some of them were very old. Others were more recent. I thought about all the bad memories that these shipwrecks had brought to people. So many men had died! As it surfaced, I wondered where it would go next on this strange journey.

Ned Land came to my room. “Tonight!” he said. “Tonight?” I was not ready for this. “Tonight,” he repeated, “we are a few miles off the Spanish coast. It will be dark, and the wind is blowing in the right direction. You agreed, Dr. Aronnax, to escape with me. Remember your promise!” I said nothing. “At nine o’clock,” continued Ned Land, “I will go to the staircase with Conseil. You will wait in the library for our signal.” “The sea is far from calm,” I said. “Yes, but if we don’t go tonight, we will soon be too far from land!” I knew he was right.

At seven o’clock, I was so nervous that I felt sick. Only two hours to go! As I looked around, I saw that Captain Nemo’s bedroom door was open. The room was empty. I saw pictures of famous liberators like Abraham Lincoln and John Brown on the walls. Was Captain Nemo a liberator, too?

It was eight o’clock. I dressed in my waterproof clothes and boots and went to the dark library. I waited for Ned’s signal. Just then, the engines stopped and came to rest on the ocean floor.

The library door opened, and Captain Nemo entered. He told me that we were in Vigo Bay. A Spanish commander had burned his own ships there in 1702 to prevent the British Navy from taking a great deal of gold they were carrying. He took me to the window. The people working on the Nautilus were bringing the gold to the submarine. Now, I knew how Captain Nemo had become so rich.

“But of what use is all this gold to you?” I asked.

“It is of no use to me!” he replied, “but it can help people who are oppressed ( 受 压 迫 的 ).” He stopped. Perhaps he thought he had said too much. However, I now understood what those liberators meant to him.

Ned Land came to my room the next morning. “We were unlucky,” he said, “the Nautilus stopped just as we were about to escape. Perhaps we can try again tonight.” Early in the afternoon, the Nautilus surfaced. We went onto the board, but the land was already out of sight. Escape was impossible now.

【1】According to the passage, a “liberator” is a person who _______.

A.works as a national leaderB.works to free others

C.works to find hidden treasureD.works in the library

【2】Which of the following shows the right order of the story?

①The submarine passed many shipwrecks.

②The Nautilus moved away from Spanish coast.

③Captain Nemo knew the secret of the gold in Vigo Bay.

④Ned told Dr. Aronnax about the plan to escape.

A.③①④②B.①④③②C.③①②④D.①④②③

【3】What can we learn from the passage?

A.Captain Nemo helped people by getting gold from a Spanish commander.

B.Dr. Aronnax wasn’t willing to get away from the submarine Nautilus at all.

C.Sailing on the ocean must be dangerous and caused a large number of deaths.

D.Ned Land had got everything ready before he wanted to escape that night.